- Leading South Asia Finance for Cargill Foods (3 Product lines - Edible oils, Starches/ Sweeteners/ Textutizers, Cocoa/ Chocolate; B2B & B2C GTMs)- Responsible for providing strategic and financial leadership to establish and execute against the global vision/strategy- Driving insight into profitability, value creation & growth opportunity; leading high performing teams

Responsible for Supply Services finance covering Inventory, space, freight, business planning and customer service strategy for India, Bangladesh and SriLanka

# Management of Trade spends and Sales fixed costs# Overall Channels and Regions Profitability Management & Go To Market Strategy# Business Partner for General trade, Government supplies, and Institutional business# Lead automation and simplification initiatives

 Associate Director - Finance Business Partner - Acute Cluster (Category Finance) -All India finance lead for the therapies’ cluster (Rs 1450+ crs), having direct P&L delivery responsibility To provide strategic inputs & decision analysis support in daily affairs and partner in business projects  Areas include P&L forecasting, GC Mix Mgmt., Expiry control, budgetary controls (Ring fencing) etc

Led Project management role for GST launch for entire Cipla as part of 3 members team

 Areas include Credit control, accounting & payments, sales taxes, depot control, FP&A & claims mgmt. Credit monitoring & control including credit limit approvals, action on overdue payments etc. Payments for marketing spends & depot operations - accounting, payments & compliance (Taxation) Distribution budget preparation, review of operational efficiency, inventory and fixed assets controls Ensure 100% IFC/SOP/DOA compliance across all depots/marketing initiatives/capex/taxation filings Key projects across GST, payment automation, cost control, depth of analysis and compliance

1. Business Planning and Analysis - * Budgeting and Forecasting, Long Term Strategic Planning, * BU-ROIC Analysis, Gross margin tree, Business Partnering * Consolidated management financials * Leadership Reviews - Quarterly Board decks of Global CFO, Sales flash, Black books, Chairman’s decks * Bench-marking & Risk Evaluation -Competition, risk simulation on @Risk, Qlikview * Investor Relations and Analysis - FAQs preparations, Bridges2. Therapy Business Finance - * Handling the financials (topline & bottomline)- The biggest and growing therapy of Cipla * Case analysis for all future expansion plans - NPV of launches, Capex, M&A update3. Others Key Projects - * Complexity Reduction, SAP Simplification for management reporting * Projects on Manufacturing decisions, Pricing, Costing * Distress Plant Sale: Singlehandedly covered 2 plants valuation assignments including assets physical identification & business valuation * Balanced Scorecard - Finance Transformation: Aligned Global CFOs scorecard to all the functional CFO’s KPIs; benchmarked it to industry’s best practices * Cost to Serve - Redesigned costing by identifying key drivers; for all 29 units; recommended >₹50 cr saving thru SKU rationalization *Fuel for Growth: Core team member to drive FFG with AT Kearney in the areas of cost to serve, batch size optimization & taxation * Manufacturing Optimization: Financial evaluation for consolidating underutilized facilities, leading to extra capacity to address future bottleneck

# Worked for Fx Structuring Asia Desk to structure investment products# Familiarized with the working and various functions of DB Singapore office during one week trip# Identified themes for 2nd half of the year based on discussions with sales, trading & research teams # Customized trade ideas on themes for Korea retail, Malaysia retail & Private wealth management clients# Devised a momentum based hedging strategy on USDINR for Indian exporter having USD receivables # Actively contributed to live pricing of sales requests and pitched ideas basis same on real time basis # Differentiated DB in Back to Back Asia business by pitching ideas showing in-depth analysis to client -Analyzed Sensitivities of key structures’ parameters (TPF & Pivot) & Developed tool for CNH report# Winner, "Making Markets Simulation", a trading strategy game out of 8 teams from top Indian MBA schools# Appreciated for proactively working on multiple themes and educating clients through sensitivity analysis

# Part time weekend teaching assignments of subjects such as Derivatives and Portfolio Management for 3 months (2012)# Conducted classes for students appearing for CFA level 1, 2 & 3; having batch strength upto 40 students

# Worked with Global Procurement Head and category buyers in procurement of raw & packaging materials# Tracked global commodities & financial markets and prepared monthly commodity outlook reports# Planned annual material price budget and forecasted monthly material price estimates# Analyzed procurement activities in terms of timing, pricing, sourcing and risk hedging decisions # Controlled budget through price variance reports, inventory reports & mark to market analysis using SAP# Coordinated procurement analysis of Treasury & International business divisions (Dubai, Egypt & Nepal)# Sole representative from procurement division in Innovation cell (Cross Functional team)# Successfully coordinated the task “Procure to pay” (Internal Audit of procurement division with PWC)# Structured the Budgeting process to maintain consistency among India and International divisions’ prices# Undertook cost savings, supplier performance evaluation and E Sourcing (Ariba) initiatives# Member - Team Innovation - Responsible for cost benefit analysis, timing & sourcing of new product development

# Traded Crude Oil Futures (WTI & Brent), their calendar and inter-commodities Spreads# Developed strategies for intraday and long term trading in ICE & NYMEX exchanges # Analyzed markets using customized parameters of technical indicators: Bollinger Bands, MACD, RSI # Linked fundamental & macroeconomic data from major economies with technical key levels# Gained proficiency in analyzing markets using databases such as Bloomberg & Reuters Terminals# Amongst top 3 traders from the first batch of 10, to successfully trade crude oil futures # Consistent trader in volume & profits during volatile market of 2008-10 (Profits in 5 out of 7 Quarters)# Increased in limits by 200% in less than 1.5 years (10 lots in Futures & 250 lots in spreads, 1 lot~$1lac)

# Responsible for financial budgeting, monthly reporting on MIS for strategic planning and decision support# Conceptualized quarterly financial planning & streamlined zero based budgeting processes

Underwent training for the application of technical & fundamental analysis

Analyzed & suggested improvements on channel development project